People on Facebook shared more stories about fox hunting than about Brexit over the course of the general election campaign, according to an analysis of the most shared issues since the vote was called.

Young voter registration, the NHS, and Jeremy Corbyn's security record were topics all shared more than stories around Brexit, BuzzFeed News analysis reveals.

And several major political developments that featured prominently in the newspapers during the campaign, such as Labour's nationalisation plans and the Conservative U-turn on social care, also failed to set social media alight, compared with other issues like the NHS or school meals.

As the campaign ends, we've analysed the most viral articles of the entire period and grouped them by topic, to see which broader issues and themes dominated the online conversation. Unsurprisingly, the strongly pro-Labour trend is reflected here too, with the single most viral topic being endorsements of Jeremy Corbyn from figures as diverse as Danny DeVito, grime star Akala, and "British volunteers fighting against ISIS".

These are top 20 most shared subjects over the election campaign.

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The colour indicates which party the stories under that topic primarily focused on; the sentiment shows whether a majority were positive, neutral, or negative about that party.

In what was supposed to be "the Brexit election", it may be surprising that Brexit only places eighth on the list – two places behind fox hunting. What's more, of the stories about Brexit that did go viral, not a single one was about the parties' differing visions for Brexit.

Despite Brexit being the reason that May gave for going to the polls – and despite the Liberal Democrats' attempts to become the default party of Remain voters – the so-called "Brexit election" seems to have featured almost no actual discussion of the topic.

Several stories that dominated much mainstream coverage during the campaign miss out on being in the top 20 most shared, such the so-called "dementia tax" that forced May into a social policy U-turn and damaged her "strong and stable" campaign strategy. (It comes in at number 25 on the list, two places above Tory plans on ivory sales.) Only one piece that specifically focused on Labour's nationalisation plans, which dominated newspaper front pages when the party's manifesto leaked, made it into the 250 most viral stories, leaving the topic down at number 50 on the list.